April 2020
With strong growth of its sheltered funds, the Foundation wishes to strengthen its team and is looking for : A Project Administrator attached to the General Management for the operational and administrative management of Sheltered Funds. Application deadline: Friday 15 May 2020. To apply, please send your application to the recruitment agency (Alec Allan & […]
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April 2020
Long-time partner of Swiss Philanhropy Foundation, the Verbier Festival announces the creation of a new fund to provide emergency relief to unemployed Verbier Festival Academy alumni — solo, chamber and orchestral instrumentalists, singers, conductors — and alumni Festival production and technical crew facing lost income because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The current global health […]
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April 2020
Donations and generosity are exploding in this Covid-19 period. With one particularity: they “relocate”, stimulating local communities. The university hospitals of Lausanne and Geneva are overwhelmed by donations. In such a consequent way that it was necessary to create a mutual aid fund to structure the reception of all the marks of generosity. Voluntary technological […]
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April 2020
The consequences for the economy are still being assessed, but what about support for NGOs, in Switzerland or elsewhere, and through them, aid to the most disadvantaged ? What are their response capacities? For many NGOs, the impacts are major, as they offer a range of services that are directly impacted by the containment measures. […]
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April 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the first and only fund for individuals, companies and institutions to contribute to the global response to COVID-19. To expand the global donor network, WHO has partnered with two charitable foundations: Swiss Philanthropy Foundation and United Nations Foundation. Both foundations will receive donations, which will then be used […]
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March 2020
Give blood? Know his blood type? As he accompanies a group of invited visitors to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (ICRC) of which he is the director, Pascal Hufschmid reads aloud the title of a poster for the latest temporary exhibition: “Blood – the gift of life”. The poster, which includes red […]
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Find the Covid19 Fund in the columns of the newspaper Le Temps, with the testimony of Etienne Eichenberger, Chairman of Swiss Philanthropy Foundation. “We are making our infrastructure and expertise available to this initiative and to donors to facilitate the collectof donations while forwarding them to the World Health Organization (WHO)” explains Etienne Eichenberger. Discover […]
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March 2020
The last issue of the newspaper “Réformés” devoted a file on the new ways of giving today. The opportunity for Etienne Eichenberger, President of the Swiss Philanthropy Foundation, to share his view on the culture of giving today, and how to encourage it? In the last ten years, social networks have changed the way of […]
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March 2020
In 2020, after 7 editions and more than 200 participants in Romandie, Swiss Philanthropy Foundation continues to organise the Master Class , in partnership with the Center for Philanthropy Studies of Basel University (CEPS) and the Geneva Centre for Philanthropy of the University of Geneva (UNIGE). Who should attend? This training is intended primarily for […]
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January 2020
The year 2019 ended on a positive note for the TGE – “Transnational Giving Europe” network and its Swiss partner Swiss Philanthropy Foundation. There has been a 15% increase in European cross-border donations compared to 2018 with a total amount of 13.8 million euros, involving 6,632 donors for 423 beneficiaries across Europe. These positive results […]
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